| Welcome to the New Year's edition of Startup Strategist by Stratup.ai. | Estimated read time: 2-4 minutes (more if you read/listen to the linked resources, of course) | | I recently thought the following idea might be something I should make. It follows a principle that Paul Graham shares, where an idea is preferably a problem you yourself have. | I'm asking as presumably a percentage of you use X (formerly Twitter). Often, a high volume of rather low quality/relevance accounts are recommended to me (of course this is subjective). This leads to me spending a sometimes annoying amount of time muting them. | Six months ago I proposed it might be nice to have a feature where one could mute the accounts a mutual you trust has already muted. I now recently learned about block lists (I think they're called), but haven't really looked into them too closely. | I recognize the downsides of such a system. Outsourcing this can lead to more errors, like muting an account that is actually valuable or relevant to you, or provides a balanced viewpoint, etc. Depending on who you are, it might lead to more polarized views. So it may be hypothesized that for a subset of users who opt for such tools, it would be largely negative by reconfirming or strengthening biases. | Most recently, I have consider two mechanisms to achieve this. | The tool mutes accounts if they follow a significant figure of those you've muted. As mentioned earlier, muting those that a significant number of your mutuals have muted.
| Although the annoyance exists for me, the "solution" could, of course, be worse than the problem. It may be too extreme/harsh. | As said in the beginning, I'm writing this to seek your input. As people like Paul Graham explain, it is typically not enough for a person to think "that might be a good product", but rather more enthusiastically respond, as it shows it solves an evident pain point. If the latter is you, you may click the thumbs-up here. This will help me gauge whether I should move forward to attempt to validate this idea (of course this is a rather crude method of validating). | Another issue with this idea is X may not allow it for a number of reasons. | Does this idea resonate? | | Something like this may already exist, though I haven't heard of one like this. I haven't searched that much for it however. | | |
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